Chathurika Jayani’s new exhibition now on at the Paradise Road Galleries presents landscapes very familiar to Colombo folk but not ones that other artists usually pick as their subject. Her exhibition titled ‘Escapes’ focuses on scenes from the slums which she brings alive on cardboard and corrugated board creating three dimensional imagery on two dimensional [...]

As Sri Lanka’s leading heavy metal band gears to celebrate the 10th b’day of one of their signature albums, Silent Chaos Serpentine with a concert, Joshua Surendraraj looks at Stigmata’s imprint on the music scene Since the release of their concept album, “The Ascetic Paradox’ (TAP) four months ago, Sri Lanka’s very own Heavy Metal [...]

Young Nilmini Amarasinghe is a combination of talents – with a career in engineering on one hand, she has a thirst to discover the warrior in her. This 26-year-old first took up Angampora at the age of 10 when she was introduced to an Angampora guru by her uncle. She stopped training after one year, [...]

Pallavi Symons, professional make-up artist in India and an expert across international beauty and fashion circuits together with Pond’s BB+, will introduce an exclusive range of new looks for 2016, at the upcoming Colombo Fashion Week (CFW), organizers of the show said in a statement. Symons’ career as a professional make-up artist kick started in [...]

Rapper Kendrick Lamar led the Grammy winners with five wins but was shut out of the night’s top categories as Taylor Swift nabbed album of the year in an upset victory. Compton, California rapper Lamar went into the awards with 11 nominations, and had looked on course to take album of the year for his [...]

Lukas Graham the Danish pop, punk and soul band has taken the No: 1 spot on the UK singles chart with the song ‘7 Years’. The track is the band’s debut UK release which took 105,000 combined sales to register the chart topping position. In total ‘7 Years’ has over 200,000 combined sales from two [...]

Alliance Française de COLOMBO will present an evening of Classical Music by the Japanese Pianist Chiho Akaishi, Rioo Kurato (Baritone) and Chikai Kurasawa (Soprano) on Friday 4th March from 6.30 to 8.00 pm at the Alliance Francaise Auditorium at No.11, Barnes Place, Colombo 7. The Japanese Trio will perform some of the top classical songs [...]

The Disc Jockey or best abridged as DJ is no doubt quite a popular entity in the current world of music and entertainment and yet, we Sri Lankans have been incognizant with the fact that the art of DJing has been ever-present in Sri Lanka for over 40 years. DJ’s in Sri Lanka have been [...]

Well known actor, model and dancer Suraj Mapa presents ‘Elements with Surya’, a spectacular dance extravaganza with over fifty dancers at 10.00 am and 6.30 pm on Saturday 27 February at the Dharmaraja College Audotirium in Kandy. The two-hour show will bring together dancers representing various forms and styles, combined with the talent of film [...]

Reckoned with the age old traditional values and the deep inner work of self-discovery, who graces (the upper echelon of the industry), Art of Beauty, with the outward and visible displays of his purity in spiritual life, Harris Wijayasinghe – the master of divining bridal beauty, has been centred for a grand felicitation ceremony coined [...]

‘The Biggest Sri Lankan Event of 2016’- ‘Thaana Saha Varna’, the Dell Studio Live in Concert in Melbourne will come alive on 6th March at Robert Blackwood Hall. The concert is organised by Lanka Vision, the leading event management company, who produced some of the finest Sri Lankan events in Australia, in association with TV [...]

Prof. Ediriweera Sarathchandra’s legendary play Sinhabahu which is included in the G.C.E. O/L Sinhala syllabus will be staged at 8.15a.m and 11.00 a.m. on Thursday February 25 at the refurbished Rukmani Devi Memorial Theatre, Negambo. The show is organized by Jude Srimal.

Award winning debut film direction of Rabin Chandrasiri, the producer of one of the landmark films in Sri Lankan film history “Dadayama” (The Hunt”) is now being screened at Ricky Fort, Ritz Borella and other MPI theatres around the country. Made based on a serious social issue that was and is engulfed in Sri Lankan [...]

Hollywood action movie ‘Deadpool’ made based on the Marvel Comics characters is now being screened at Majestic cinemplex and Empire Colombo. Directed by Tim Miller the film stars Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T. J. Miller, Gina Carano, Brianna Hildebrand, Stefan Kapičić, and Leslie Uggams and is the eighth installment in the X-Men film [...]

Senthosa, the latest addition to Colombo’s increasing array of restaurants which opened at Horton Place, serving authentic Singaporean, Chinese, Malaysian, Indonesian, Vietnamsese and Thai cuisine, has now added the service of veteran Chef Bobby all the way from Malaysia to prepare the best of Far Eastern cuisine. Barley three months of operations, proprietor Niranjan Devaditya [...]

The ‘Wayamba Wijayabimai’ 2015, conducted by Industrial Services Bureau of the North Western Province, presented to ‘Best Environment Enterprise and Best Energy Efficient Enterprise’ Awards to Club Palm Bay Hotel Marawila. Lalith Kumarasinghe, Chief Engineer, Club Palm Bay received the Award onbehalf of the hotel. ‘Club Palm Bay is committed to the promotion of the Hospitality Industry [...]

The long awaited Cinnamon -HSBC Marco Pierre White Challenge powered by Knorr concluded on a high recently, with celebrity chef and Judge of MasterChef Australia, Marco Pierre White judging the finalists and selecting the winner. Young Anya De Silva emerged as winner of the cook-off challenge. With nearly a hundred applications received at the inception [...]